going into the election. in fact, two weeks ago, before the hurricane, erin, we were up by three to five points in swing states and we thought we were heading towards a victory, so i'm not going to recriminate. we've just got to realize what he did right, wrong, improve and do a better job of delivering the message. but hand it to the president for running a good closing argument and good ground game. >> what does someone like you think about 2016? you're one of the names that could be running. what are you focusing on? is it really focus all the time on reaching out on immigration and to hispanics? >> i think it's 24 hours after the polls close, so i'm not thinking about 2016. i'm thinking about virginia with a legislative session coming up, but i think the future of the party is with republican governors. we may have 31 when washington state finishes counting on friday. and i think that the leaders that are in our party that are conservatives that are ceos of the states balancing budgets without raising tax